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Welcome to 1100 Pennsylvania, a newsletter devoted to President Donald Trump’s Trump Hotel International Washington, D.C. (and his other companies). President Trump, of course, still owns his businesses and can profit from them.

If you like what you see, tell someone. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.

Judge tells GSA to look harder for FBI HQ docs

The General Services Administration must conduct “a more comprehensive” search of records it has on the FBI headquarters in Washington, a District Court judge ruled Monday, after a watchdog group [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)] filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit…

The FOIA request, first filed in July 2017, stems from the Trump administration’s decision last year to scrap the FBI’s plans to move to a consolidated campus in suburban Virginia or Maryland.

For the uninitiated, here’s why this ruling is in a newsletter about the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.: The FBI’s current headquarters is diagonally across Pennsylvania Avenue from the hotel, a six-minute walk (per Apple Maps).

If the FBI HQ were moved, GSA could seek proposals to redevelop the site—possibly with it ending up as a luxury hotel. That is, competition for the president’s hotel. Hence the curiosity about why the Trump administration got involved in this issue.

The curious case of The Spa by Ivanka Trump’s Instagram accounts continues

Yesterday’s 1100 Pennsylvania noted the debut of two seemingly new Instagram accounts to promote The Spa by Ivanka Trump in the D.C. and Vancouver hotels. Ivanka, of course, has taken a leave of absence from the Trump Org to work in the White House as an advisor to the president, her father and fellow hotel co-owner.

While the Trump Org has not yet responded to my questions asking to verify the D.C. Instagram account’s authenticity and, if it is legit, why they chose to start promoting the spa by name now and if doing so means that Ivanka’s increasing her involvement in the business, the D.C. Instagram account’s sole post appears to have been deleted.

“The Landmarks Preservation Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved the design for a dock at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, but not before some pushback from a neighbor’s attorney.” By Ian Cohen for Palm Beach Daily News.

One thing that has nothing to do with Trump’s businesses (I think, tough to tell sometimes!)

Thanks for reading. If you like what you saw, tell someone. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.